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Feb 10, 2023
By Thao Le
Sapa is a small town, about 6 hours by bus from Hanoi, close to the border between Vietnam and China. Sapa is famous for its mountain scenery, terraced fields that stretch along gentle hillsides, and the locals' enthusiasm and hospitality. So to choose the best time for your trip to Sapa, there are some destinations of suitable weather and time for each purpose of your trip in Vietnam Tour Package.
Generally, the weather in Sapa varies unpredictably from month to month and throughout the day. At an average elevation of 1500–1800 meters above sea level, Sapa town is constantly enveloped in circling clouds, resulting in a fantastical, weird, and lovely scene.
The average annual temperature in Sapa is 15.4 °C (59.7 °F), with July seeing the highest maximum and December seeing the lowest minimum. The coldest months are December through March, and it occasionally snows for one to three days. In the winter, there are frequent frosts, and the landscape is covered in mist. There are about 137 foggy days every year, which is rather common.
With such extreme weather, many tourists living in tropical climates can choose Sapa as a place to enjoy the cold of winter. In particular, snow can appear in Sapa on some days in winter, which is the season that attracts a lot of tourists to come to witness and touch the snow.
The weather in Sapa in July is appropriate for summer travelers who want to avoid the heat, with temperatures ranging from 18°C to 24°C. There is also occasional rainfall in Sapa at this time. In order to cool the environment during the day, there is typically 461 mm of precipitation and 81% humidity.
This is the time of summer, so the weather here is quite hot during the daytime, but because it lies higher than sea level, the weather at night is also quite cool and pleasant, suitable for activities in the evening such as singing and dancing activities, a campfire at night.
As a result of the daily mean temperature dropping to 17 °C, Sapa has a colder climate. Tourists should be prepared for the odd drizzle, but significant rain seems to have disappeared during this month as the amount of precipitation drops dramatically to just 100 mm. The town can be illuminated and the sky can be made clear with just 4 hours of sunlight every day. Fresh air and pleasant weather are essential components of your ideal vacation.
At this time, the atmosphere is quite pleasant and cool, so this is the best time for your best experience to choose to go trekking through the villages to enjoy the freshness and coolness of the waterfalls.
Since this is when terraced rice is ripe, the months of mid-August to October each year are arguably the most gorgeous. As you stroll across the huge, large rice fields, the aroma of rice in the air relaxes and reenergizes you. What a beautiful area! A broad green and yellow carpet, as granted by heaven and earth, is created when jade green and ripe rice fields entwine. The bright fields increase people's fondness for this place. Therefore, it can be considered that Sapa's ripe rice season is a special and lovely gift from nature to the locals. When traveling to Sapa during the ripe rice season, you may view this beauty from any route.
Therefore, visitors should not miss the two most beautiful times of the day to view terraced fields from above, which are sunrise and sunset. Every moment brings wonderful scenes and emotions.
Because of this beauty, terraced fields in Northwest Vietnam have been rated as one of the 10 most beautiful natural landscapes in the world that visitors should experience once in their lives.
However, if you are someone who likes to explore and experience new things, you should choose to come to Sapa in the winter (from December to February of the solar calendar). Nature is extremely favorable to Sapa in the winter when it snows, even though Vietnam is a tropical country. In winter, the whole town of Sapa is like floating in clouds and snow. Snow covered everything; the house was even half a meter thick, covering the ground with a vast white patch, both deserted and strangely beautiful. Because the weather is unpredictable, if you want to see the snow, you must keep an eye on TV or radio or contact the locals (where you book your hotel)...Coming to Sapa in winter is really like experiencing Europe in Vietnam. Sapa is completely immersed in the snow carpet, despite the cold temperatures of minus 0 degrees Celsius.
The land of Sapa is covered with white snow, and the top of Ham Rong, Fansipan, or Muong Hoa valley is also covered with snow.
Fansipan's summit
This could be one of the most beautiful seasons to enjoy the sun, wind, and fresh air of the high mountains. In the spring in Sapa, the hills become a forest of flowers. Peach blossoms, plum blossoms, and other flowers bloom all over the hillsides, halfway up the mountains, in the valleys, on the mountainside, or on the roads in the town, all full of flowers. Traveling to Sapa in the spring, you can see the most beautiful and colorful pictures.
Every year in May, the season of water pouring, when the terraced fields with water silhouettes are embellished for the beautiful picture of Sapa, is also the time when Sapa people start planting and transplanting rice (April–May). If you come to Sapa at this time, you will be extremely interested in the vast terraced fields and the idyllic scene of farmers bending over to plant rice.
Peach blossoms in Sapa
From the end of May to the middle of June, it is also the time when the trees begin to bear sweet fruit. If you travel to Sapa at this time, you will enjoy many of the attractive fruits of the cold country, such as plums, peaches, and apricots,...
Fruit and vegetables are abundant in the tropics from late May to early June. When choosing to travel at this time, you can have the opportunity to visit the fruit garden and enjoy them there with the freshest flavors such as plum, peach, and apricot.
Plums in Sapa
Sapa is the ideal place for the best villages to trek in Sapa. From the center of Sapa town, you can choose different routes for trekking, each route has its own interesting scenery, giving you great experiences.
Bac Ha market, about 65 km from Lao Cai city, is the largest market in the Northwest, held every Sunday. This is a busy and bustling market that is visited a lot by foreign tourists. This place is also a famous food market, selling a variety of products from food to livestock to brocade to ornamental plants.
The Sapa Love Market is a famous market that takes place on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings in front of the stone church. Because it takes place in the evenings, this place is an ideal place for locals and visitors to explore interesting things. The market is not only a meeting place for young couples but also an opportunity for cultural and artistic exchanges, introducing tourist images of Sapa to everyone.
Muong Hum Market is a market held every Sunday from 7 a.m. to 13 p.m. Muong Hum market mainly sells handmade items, so it requires a very long manufacturing time. However, each product has its own unique cultural characteristics of the H'Mong and Dao people.
The Muong Hoa Mountain Train is the longest train of funicular train in Vietnam via two tunnels and four viaducts. At the Sun World Fansipan Legend Yard, where the train stops, a field of sunflowers will greet you. The trip to the peak on the Sun World Fansipan cable cars, which holds a Guinness World Record, is frequently considered the highlight of visitors' trips to Sapa. Your final stage will be up a flight of steps or a funicular track to the summit of Mount Fansipan. From here, you may enjoy the amazing and gratifying sight of peaks shrouded in clouds that reach all the way to the horizon. Selfies are frequently taken at the highest point, but the entire platform may be walked around for 360-degree views.
With the above information about the Best time to visit Sapa for the best experience and other interesting activities, I hope that you can choose suitable places to accommodate your own itinerary. If you want to discover the beauty that is both majestic and poetic, come to Sapa now to explore the 2-day Sapa easy trekking tour and The Ethnic Homestays of Sapa 3-day tour to have the opportunity to experience Vietnam tours.
